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| | Yale Environment 360 The Oil Well Next Door: California’s Silent Health Hazard Unlike other oil-producing states, much of the drilling in California takes place in residential neighborhoods, often in Spanish-speaking communities. Despite mounting complaints about pollution from the wells, the state has failed to take action to address this public health problem. Read more
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Washington Post Block by block, he aims to fight injustice and save the planet BROOKLYN — Donnel Baird kept his coat on while he toured the aging sanctuary. His breath froze on his face mask as he took in the peeling plaster, the dusty basement, the failing boiler that never seemed able to make Bright Light Baptist Church warm. Read more
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| | Texas Tribune Warren Buffett group lobbying Texas lawmakers for deal to build $8 billion worth of power plants for emergency use In return, lawmakers would agree to create a revenue stream for Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway through an additional charge on Texans’ power bills. Read more
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Adirondack Explorer Snow future The Adirondack winter of 2015-2016 was one for the record books, and not in a promising way. There was no December “Snowdeo” gathering for snowmobilers in Old Forge, and scarcely a snowmobile season later. It had snowed 1.6 inches in November. During the first week of December, riders wore T-shirts, a local official recalled. Read more
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| | Grist The new vocabulary of climate change was written in Icelandic Andri Snær Magnason, the Icelandic writer and poet famous for writing a memorial to a dying glacier, has spent the last decade searching for the right words to capture a problem as big as the overheating planet. For most people, what climate change really means for humanity’s future hasn’t sunk in yet; otherwise, he reasons, everyone would be clamoring for action. How do you make that terrifying reality sink in faster, he wondered? Magnason’s book On Time and Water, recently released in the United States, is his attempt to answer that question. Read more
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NBC News Texas officials circulated climate skeptic’s talking points on power failures during storm WASHINGTON — As millions of Texans went without power for days during February’s devastating storm, Texas oil and gas regulators were circulating talking points from a noted climate skeptic blaming system failures on the state’s embrace of wind and solar energy, emails obtained by NBC News show. Read more
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| | ABC Australia Should solar owners pay to supply the grid, or are there other options? Here’s what you need to know The Australian Energy Market Commission (AEMC) last week announced that Australians could soon be charged for exporting solar to the grid to help cope with electricity “traffic jams”. Read more Editor’s Note: In countries where solar panels have become more widespread, a recurring issue has been how the energy they produce for individual houses interacts with the existing grids. Here our algorithm highlighted a piece from Australia. – Christopher Brennan, Editor
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WESA Local ‘Clean’ Manufacturers Hint At Tactics Biden Might Use To Move Sector Into Sustainable Future Even before details of President Biden’s highly-anticipated infrastructure plan became available, manufacturing was expected to rank among its top priorities. Biden has made no secret about his ambitions to revive the sector, and his decision to travel to Pittsburgh Wednesday to unveil parts of the multi-trillion dollar package underscores that point. Read more
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| | World Resources Institute US Cities Bought More Renewable Energy Than Ever in 2020. Here’s How As the world reels from the financial blow of COVID-19, local governments in the United States are under huge pressure as cities and counties face severe budget shortfalls. This is forcing cuts to crucial spending on education and infrastructure as well as layoffs, furloughs and hiring freezes. Losing critical funds could have seriously hindered U.S. local governments’ continued progress on renewable energy. Read more
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Reuters Canada’s cash-rich oil sands firms face pressure to spend on transition Canada’s biggest oil sands producers are generating billions more in free cash flow in a faster-than-expected pandemic rebound, but taking a cautious approach to spending it that is disappointing environment-minded investors. Read more
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| | London Evening Standard TfL wins right to take Bishopsgate case to Court of Appeal as it aims to get low-traffic schemes back on track Transport for London is seeking to get its low-traffic schemes back on track after winning the right to ask the Court of Appeal to overturn a ruling that a landmark project was “illegal”. Read more
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South China Morning Post After Suez Canal crisis, EU’s bid to cut carbon emissions in shipping threatens Asia-Europe trade By extending its emissions trading system to shipping, the European Commission could unfairly tax intra-Asian trade and jeopardise multilateral efforts to reduce pollution Read more
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| | Project Syndicate A Just Climate Transition for Africa | by Sharon Ikeazor ABUJA – From sweltering heatwaves to disrupted harvests, Nigerians are already feeling the effects of climate change, and the country’s fast-growing young population is working hard to develop innovative solutions to the escalating crisis. But climate change is not a challenge any country can tackle alone. Read more
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The New Republic Are Climate Progressives Organized Enough to Force Biden’s Hand? So far green groups have largely praised the Biden administration—its quick cancellation of the Keystone XL pipeline, its recommitment to the Paris Agreement, and other early steps. But now, as Biden prepares to provide details on his Build Back Better Agenda in Pittsburgh on Wednesday, progressive and environmental organizations say they’re looking for more. Read more
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| | Chattanooga Times Free Press TVA urged to be leader in Biden’s new deal to fight global climate change Should infrastructure plans push federal utility toward no-carbon future? Read more Editor’s Note: The Tennessee Valley Authority is written about in history books for its part in Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal, though what can its role be in the 21st century energy transition. Here our algorithm highlighted a piece from the local paper in Chattanooga. – Christopher Brennan, Editor
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The Conversation Why South Africa’s electricity blackouts are set to continue for the next five years South Africa is once more experiencing periodic power cuts. These typically take the form of scheduled supply interruptions, for two to four hours a day, whenever the country’s electricity system is overloaded. Such overloading currently happens on 40-50 days a year. Read more
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| | Green Bay Press Gazette A plan to build housing with net-zero energy consumption was her dream. It’s coming true on a vacant lot in downtown Green Bay. GREEN BAY – Where others see a vacant lot, Marissa Michalkiewicz sees the future of environmentally sustainable, affordable housing. Read more
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Mongabay Study finds some UN SDGs could damage forests, some others may be beneficial Progress towards some Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) targets will inevitably cause damage to forests. The damaging targets mostly relate to energy and infrastructure targets, research has said. Read more
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| | City Monitor Here’s how Joe Biden can decarbonise US buildings US President Joe Biden wants to halve the carbon footprint of US buildings by 2035. Working across federal agencies, here is a road map to get it done. Read more
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Vox What should coal communities do when power plants shut down? Ask Germany. Here are 3 big lessons from Germany’s transition off of coal power. Read more
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| | Nikkei Asian Review Japan looks to end support for overseas coal power projects TOKYO — The Japanese government is considering ending support for the exportation of coal-fired power plants to follow the lead of the U.S. and Europe on decarbonization, Nikkei has learned. Read more
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EuroNews Technology, agriculture’s friend for the sustainable farms of the future How can European agriculture become more eco-friendly and guarantee a healthy, profitable production? The answer lies in innovative production methods and cutting-edge technology, the likes of which are being used at the Farm of the Future in the Netherlands. Read more
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| | London School of Economics Barriers to net zero: How firms can make or break the green transition Large firms have been committing to climate neutrality at a fast pace, but investment in cleaner technologies is much lower in smaller companies. What keeps organisations from embracing the green transition? Using data on more than 11,000 firms across 22 emerging markets, Ralph De Haas, Ralf Martin, Mirabelle Muûls, and Helena Schweiger find that both credit constraints and green management play a role. Their study reveals how financial crises can slow down the process of decarbonisation. Read more Editor’s Note: Beyond governments, companies also have a role to play. Here a team of researchers looks into the data on what is holding them back. – Christopher Brennan, Editor
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Union of Concerned Scientists Investing in a Worker-Centered Federal Response to Energy Transition As we collectively work toward a clean energy economy, many advocates have started to recognize the need to address the disproportionate impact that such a transition will have on the workers and communities that depend on the fossil fuel industries to earn their livelihoods and power their economies. But what can policymakers do about it? And what should advocates be asking for? Read more
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| | Quartz India has big green energy dreams—but issues old and new persist After Joe Biden took charge as the United States president, climate change is returning as a pillar of its collaboration with India. It emerged in the recently-held online meeting of the heads of states of the Quad countries—Australia, India, Japan and the US. Read more
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